Pinyin "kuai4"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "kuai4" is split up into two parts: "ku" and "ai4". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "ku"

K is for Karl Koala.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "ai4"

In the airplane's bathroom.

Characters pronounced kuai4

to balance an account / accountancy / accounting
to balance an account / accounting / accountant
rapid / quick / speed / rate / soon / almost / to make haste / clever / sharp (of knives or wits) / forthright / plainspoken / gratified / pleased / pleasant

= + : Karl Koala made the mistake to have asked the crystal ball in the airplane's bathroom about his future. After he has seen his fate he quickly and angrily destroys the crystal ball with a flail.
lump (of earth) / chunk / piece / classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc / (coll.) classifier for money and currency units

= + : Karl Koala let the crystal ball drop in the airplane's bathroom. He collected all the pieces and fixed them together again using nothing but dirt. After he asks the crystal ball whether or not everything is okay, the crystal ball replies that Karl is a piece of shit.
chopstick

= + : In the airplane's bathroom Karl Koala is rapidly manufacturing chopsticks out of a bamboo stick so that he may soon start eating eucalyptus leaves again.
old variant of 澮|浍[kuai4]
chopped meat or fish
surname Kuai
throat / to swallow
drain / stream
surname Kuai / name of a feudal state
see 鱠魚|鲙鱼[kuai4 yu2] / variant of 膾|脍[kuai4]